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Just in from AP:
Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said Monday it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
Earlier Monday, Bush administration officials had brushed off an apology that Newsweek’s editor [...]

On MSNBC’s Don Imus show this morning, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman and Jonathan Alter patted themselves and their magazine on the back for their fine demonstration of media accountability…and continued the blame-the-Pentagon meme.
Take special note of Fineman’s cinematic reference.
Howard Fineman: “‘We regret that we got any part of our story wrong’ is what Mark Whitaker [...]

Demonstrators in Islamabad react to Newsweek’s report of Koran desecration at Guantanamo Bay (REUTERS)
You have the read the story by now via the Times (UK) online and elsewhere: “At least nine people were killed yesterday as a wave of anti-American demonstrations swept the Islamic world from the Gaza Strip to the Java Sea, sparked [...]

A few days ago I commented on the suppression of anti-Muslim art in the Netherlands. Today Reuters reports a similar incident in Sweden:
A Swedish museum dedicated to world culture has removed a erotic painting plastered with verses from the Muslim holy book, the Koran, from an exhibition about AIDS after Muslims complained it was obscene.
Jette [...]

JihadWatch has inside information about the Egyptian Christian family of four murdered in New Jersey last week:
The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against them, [...]

From the London Sunday Times, we learn that Muslim polygamists may get special tax breaks in Britain:
The Inland Revenue is considering recognising polygamy for some religious groups for tax purposes. Officials have agreed to examine “family friendly” representations from Muslims who take up to four wives under sharia, the laws derived from the Koran. [...]

Sam Hamod clears up some misconceptions about Islam and the Koran in the Washington Times:
The killings of Americans Nicholas Berg and Paul M. Johnson Jr. and South Korean Kim Sun-il � and that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan � are “an extreme form of execution that is most inhumane,” [...]